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One Farmer And His Engineered Non-Browning Apples

Posted December 20, 2013 3:45 PM

From Popular Science:

For a small-time farmer, Neal Carter has received a lot of big-time attention. Developer of Arctic apples, which are genetically engineered so their interiors stay white for hours after being cut.

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12/20/2013 6:34 PM

First of all, people that are just anti-GMO, just because it's GMO, are stupid.

I'm not anti-GMO, but I think that there a lot of bad things associated with the increasing levels of glyphosate in our food and soil; along with a possible connection to the bee decline.

U.S. Department of Agriculture approval for Arctic apples is marching forward: In early November, the USDA's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service released its assessments of the Arctic after three years of deliberations. . .

Secondly...why would the USDA deliberate the Arctic apple for three years, when they simply take Monsanto's own in house studies, as proof that eating glyphosate is healthy?

Didn't Mr Carter have enough money to finance any political campaigns?

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12/20/2013 7:32 PM

Grasshopper, Monsanto contributes millions of dollars to politicians and pays millions of dollars more to lobbyists so that politician's poor hearing can be cured.

It seems that money increases the ability of politicians to hear the pleadings of billion dollar corporations who want to enrich mankind and save the unwashed masses of the world from starvation.

Farmer Joe only has enough money to pay his bills.

Apparently, Farmer Joe doesn't care if politicians can hear, or not. He uses his money for self serving things like survival.

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12/20/2013 8:22 PM

Apples are a strange fruit...... You can not grow the same apple that is sweet from its own seed...... There's is a good chance it will be sour our tart..... The only way is by grafting.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grafting

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12/20/2013 10:53 PM

Grafting? This involves grafting?? The politicians should be all over it!!!

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12/20/2013 9:00 PM

Finally I'll be able to buy presliced apples.....this will be great...

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